Chair — a live organism

universities are crucial for any existence of scientific schools — live collectives which, on particles increasing knowledge and experience, transfer them to young successors. And than the chair is more senior, especially authoritative and powerful scientific schools higher education institution possesses. They also allow to form strategy of developments existing branches, to define the new directions in equipment and technologies. "Yesterday" — a support for "today" One of such chairs in ours university — "Piston engines" (E-2) which more than 10 years ago has stepped a 100-year boundary. During this time, as they say, much water has flowed under the bridges, and...